The department provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary medical rehabilitation for patients with disabilities resulting from illness or accident. The goal is towards optimal functional ability and mobility, enabling a discharge home, reintegration into the family and society.
Clinical Services
Candidates for Rehabilitation Medicine include:
- Neurologic
Stroke, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neural infections and degeneration, Parkinson's, motor neuron diseases, myopathies - Orthopaedic
Fractures, joint-replacements, musculoskeletal injuries, amputations, back surgeries - Medical
Cardiac, pulmonary, arthritis and connective tissue diseases, cancer, general deconditioning, chronic pain - Surgical
Amputations, general deconditioning/debility
